Quotes About Memory

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Men's fame is like their hair, which grows after they are dead, and with just as little use to them.

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.

Is it appropriate still for a German to have a gun? I only use that as an example of a country that's still deeply involved and engaged in the conversations about how to come to terms with the past. Certainly for that country, it's not forgotten.

If you look down a barrel of a gun... you don't forget it.

Our brains have this habit of quilting dreams from the fabrics of our lives. As a filmmaker, I get to do it for a living.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

The beautiful uncut hair of graves.

I used to be a hairdresser.

Pain is handed down from one generation to the next.

The living wander away, we don't hear from them for months, years—but the dead move in with us to stay.

She fought back the tears in her eyes, because though she no longer felt she was one of the Clayr, she still felt she was a librarian and always would be, no matter what else she had become as well.

Very few people ever met a necromancer, but anyone who did remembered the bells.

But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael

What do we do? asked the next-oldest puppy, one who rarely spoke. What can we do? Watch. Wait. Protect the princesses. Keep them cheerful and unafraid. They will need whole hearts and the memory of happiness, at least, to have any chance of doing what must be done.

Estaba pensando en ti. Estabas conmigo, incluso cuando te encontrabas fuera"»

A supportive environment and attitude will help our children learn at home. Children are more emotional than cognitive—that is, they remember feelings more readily than they do facts. This means that your children remember how they felt in a particular situation much more easily than they recall the details of the event. For instance, a child listening to a story will remember exactly how she felt long after she forgets the lesson.

In fact, the first hug I ever remember getting from my mother was the day I left for prison.

Joseph just listened. It was like he was dragging every word about Jupiter into himself so he could remember it and treasure it in his heart.

The memory was like a knife cutting into him. Slicing deep into him with hate.

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forget about him. And he had to keep hoping. He had to keep hoping.

Whoever says youth is the best time in your life has cash in hand and can't remember being poor.

events were burned into his memory and so he used them to remember time

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.